Gus Fune - Development Setup: How An Important Part of Your Toolset Is Often Overlooked (Turing Fest 2022)

An engineer setup is one of the most critical aspects of their jobs. Their choice of tools, IDEs, shortcuts, fonts and ever colour schemes have a fundamental part in either making an individual more or less productive. Tech leads often overlook this essential part. It's often left for the developer to set up at their discretion. But is this the best approach?

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1. Development setup Gus Fune - Turing Fest - Edinburgh - 27/07/2022 how an important part of your toolset is often overlooked
2. Story time
3. Hi, I’m Gus 16 years in Tech 
 Currently CTO at Divbrands 🇧🇷 → 🇸🇪 → 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @gusfune
4. Managers mostly assume 
 engineers know their tools
5. Popular saying “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
6. UX User experience
7. DX Developer experience
8. https://harness.io/blog/devops/developer-experience/ “Developer Experience (DX) is the overall interactions and feelings that the developer feels when working towards a goal”
9. https://harness.io/blog/devops/developer-experience/
10. Why should I care?
11. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_98638_en.html 
 https://hrnews.co.uk/generation-rezignation-woeful-technology-forces-dissatis f ied-gen-z-to-quit-jobs/
12. Swedish saying “There is no such thing as bad weather. Only bad clothing”
13. Miguel, Developer at Divbrands “It’s a game changer to have a thoughtful environment to work. The little things can improve your state of mind, your health and even your attitude in the end.”
14. Flow
15. Oana Culachea, Daniel Rareș Obadă “a state of mind sometimes experienced by people who are deeply involved and immersed in some event, object or activity”
16. Agarwal and Karahanna, 2000 “a state of deep involvement with software that is exhibited through temporal dissociation, focused immersion, heightened enjoyment, control, and curiosity”
17. Hyperfocus: the forgotten frontier of attention 
 Brandon K. Ashino ff and Ahmad Abu-Akel “‘Hyperfocus is a phenomenon that re f lects one’s complete absorption in a task, to a point where a person appears to completely ignore or ‘tune out’ everything else”
19. Oana Culachea, Daniel Rareș Obadă “multimodality, 
 can induce an online f low state”
20. Pigeon Pie • First make the pigeon stock. Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 8 • Chop the pigeon carcasses into 3 pieces and place in a baking tray. Add the carrot, shallots and leek and drizzle with olive oil. Toss to combine and roast for 30 – 45 minutes, stirring occasionally until the bones and vegetables are golden brown • Tip the bones and vegetables into a large saucepan. Deglaze the roasting tin with a splash of water and add to the saucepan. Add the juniper berries, peppercorns, bay leaf, thyme and parsley and cover with 2 litres of water • Place over a medium heat and bring to the boil. Once the stock boils, reduce the heat and simmer gently for 3 hours. Strain the stock through a sieve and reserve to one side, or refrigerate if making in advance https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/pigeon-pie-recipe-mushrooms
21. Cognitive Shifts
22. Spink, Amanda; Dee, Cheryl (2007 - 11 - 27). 
 "Cognitive shifts related to interactive information retrieval". 
 Retrieved from Wikipedia “A cognitive shift or shift in cognitive focus is triggered by the brain's response and change due to some external force.”
23. 20’ To get back to a task after interrupted No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work Gloria Mark, Victor M. Gonzalez, Justin Harris
24. So far… - Bad tools = affect your productivity, happiness and health - Good setups help you get in a state of f low - Cognitive shifts kills the f low, resets what you’re doing
25. How to use better tools
26. *.* “Eat healthy, sleep well and exercise”
27. ⌘-Tab on a mac ALT+TAB is your enemy
29. 🔕
30. Dark Mode vs Light Mode
32. Jason Harrison 
 Sensory Perception and Interaction Research Group 
 University of British Columbia 
 2002 . WWW Colors and Readability People with astigmatism f ind it harder to read white text on black than black text on white. Part of this has to do with light levels: with a bright display (white background) the iris closes a bit more, decreasing the effect of the “deformed” lens; with a dark display (black background) the iris opens to receive more light and the deformation of the lens creates a much fuzzier focus at the eye.
33. TLDR — dark mode makes astigmatism worse. https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves- d2f8359bb46a
34. https://unsplash.com/photos/ItGaCGOO7Vc
35. Fonts
36. Why Monospace?
37. To reduce noise by merging symbols and removing details so the eyes are processing less 
 https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/ Ligatures
38. Sharing is caring Talk to your colleagues
39. Summary • Chris story • UX, DX and why you should care • Flow • Tried to make a pigeon pie Context Shift • Tips to improve your tools • “Eat healthy, sleep well and exercise” • Avoid Context Shifts • Thinking about tool disposition • Disabling noti f ications • Dark mode vs Light mode • Fonts: Monospaced and Ligatures
40. Ask WHY?
41. Say hello world @gusfune